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Setup-mnode the script failed with UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode character

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Applies to

  • NetApp SolidFire
  • NetApp HCI
  • Management Node (mNode) 11.3 and above

Issue

 When you run the setup-mnode, the script fails with the following error message

[2020-05-19T13:19:38.760683Z]:[hcilogger:120] ERROR:Uncaught Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup_scripts/setup_mnode.py", line 325, in
  File "setup_scripts/setup_mnode.py", line 302, in main
  File "setup_scripts/config_util.py", line 1304, in check_sf_mnode_credentials
  File "setup_scripts/config_util.py", line 1298, in check_sf_mnode_credentials
  File "setup_scripts/config_util.py", line 1242, in get_sf_api
  File "requests/api.py", line 112, in post
  File "requests/api.py", line 58, in request
  File "requests/sessions.py", line 494, in request
  File "requests/sessions.py", line 437, in prepare_request
  File "requests/models.py", line 309, in prepare
  File "requests/models.py", line 540, in prepare_auth
  File "requests/auth.py", line 96, in __call__
  File "requests/auth.py", line 63, in _basic_auth_str
UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode character '\u2029' in position 9: ordinal not in range(256)
 
 

 

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